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MY PRESEASON STORY JUST RAN AND RAN

by
The LeaguePaper Team
6 August 2017

AS A player, I probably fell into the ‘unlucky’ category when it came to pre-season. My managers were – in the politest sense – old school.
Micky Adams came from an era when everyone returned a stone overweight.
Mark McGhee and Gordon Strachan were proteges of the Aberdeen-era Alex Ferguson. Pre-season was constant running.
I remember, when I joined Celtic, I thought ‘Finally, this is going to be all high-tech and easy and modern’. It was the complete opposite.
Strachan did crosscountry run after crosscountry run. We went altitude training for a week in S...

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